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The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25
Tired of Baseball.
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McNalry county (Tenn.) Democrat.
 How long, oh, how long will the base ball season last? We dread the cold blasts of winter, when the earth is draped in winding sheet of snow and the ice king reigns supreme. We dread the season when bowling storms from the frigid region of the north pole freezes the very marrow in ones bones, when all nature mourns for the departed comforts and pleasures of de-
 parted spring and summer. But we will welcome the bitter, blighting blasts, we will contentedly shiver as we cower over the smoky stove in our sanctum, if it takes all this to put a stop to the base ball season. For then we can open our daily exchanges with a strong hope, yes with an almost cer- tainty of finding reading matter which we can understand, and from which we may be able to extract something which we can lay before our readers with hope of interesting and anus ing them. May the fates speed the day when the base ball season shall end, and our city dailies cease to fill column after column of their space with the incomprehensible jargon used in the makeup of their accounts of how "eight to eight, at twelfth inning makes very interesting game" and how "the Pelicans came in with high spirits, but goose egg rattled them badly" etc., etc., lad nauseam." :"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25
A Sure and Perfect Cure.

MT. J. D. Ayers, Little Rock, Ark, writes: "My wife and child was afflicted with chills an fever from August to December, in 1884. Noth- ing I could get did them any good until I obtained bottle of Hughes Tonic. They used three bottles, and have not had chill since. Am thor oughly convinced of the value of the medicine and consider it sure and perfect cure for chills and fever.
 Prepared by R. A. Robinson & Co.,, Wholesale Druggists, Louisville, Ky. Sold at retail by Druggists generally.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25
Purring Wildcat.
Indianapolis sentinel.


 Even the tame cat has the reputa- tion of being treacherous-sly it cer- tainly is when prey is its object; but the cat of the woods is worse than it's domestic cousin, and one should be wary of any soft ways the creature takes. A sporting man tells how a wildcat once tried to ''make love to him." He was stopping with an old trapper named Mann, and one day he Intentionally ventured a short dis tance from camp without his gun. His account of his experience is life like enough.
 You should just see them at it once.
 They have a seductive way of cast ing sly glances at you, meanwhile purring softly as they rub up against the trees, and they will smile on you as sweetly as a woman.
 Then they will stop and push their claws into the mud and work the muscles of their feet and legs, but all the time they keep their eyes upon you, and you can make up your mind to kill that cat or be killed by it.
 They won't lose sight of you for a moment, and if you start to run they run after you. If you start toward them they will wait for you. If you stand still they will edge up toward you until within springing distance and then, with jump, they will light on your breast, and, while their teeth and fore-claws are employed on your face and throat, their hind claws are tearing out your vitals, provided, of course, you have no more sense than to stand still for a wildcats amuse- ment.
 We'll, 1 saw the creature purring and smiling and smirking at me just as sweet as any woman could do it., and it would rub up against the tree and look at me as sly and affectionate as if it was nothing but a sixteen- year-old schoolgirl; and then it would push its claws into the mud and then grin at me again, all the time working up toward me.
 tell you I was scared almost to death. For few short-very short seconds held my breath, and then I SaNC OAC lOIIlutu yell OI 'O Ma -aa- n .'> and, praise the Lord he heard me, or 1 wouldn't be with you tonight to tell about it.
 We'll, in less than thirty seconds there was the sharp crack of the rifle and the amusement was ended. That cat, true to the wildcat instinct, be- gan to founder and flop and bounce along the ground while in its death agony; and at every flop of the cat ran faster than ever you saw a race horse, for it was right after me.
 A wildcat, when shot, begins to turn somersaults and bounce along on the ground in the direction of the man it was trying to kill. They die easy and soon, but up to the last second of their worthless lives they never cease to try to reach the man they first set out to catch.
 went back to camp with the old man, and had to listen to him pitch into me at every step about my fool ishness in starting out without a gun.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25
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Under the heading of "Literary Pseudonyms," a book recently con- piled by "A Chicago Lawyer" occur the words Buffalo Bilp-W. F. Cody" That could not have eman- ated from any other place than Chi cago, where, if we may credit the veracious Eugene Field, literary ac- tivity is synonymous with beef kill ing.-Boston Post.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25
D1y Friend, the Professor.
BY LUKE SHARP.

Not the least wonderful thing about the professor is the fact, which he himself would be the first to acknowl- edge, that he is my friend. Two per- sons more completely unlike could hardly be found than the professor and myself. l have often wondered how we became as intimate as we now are, and yet can give no reasonable reason for it. must represent to the professor gulf of yawning ignorance His knowledge begins so far above for us to have any extended converse tion on any subject with which he is familiar. He is the author of many works that are text books in the higher branches of science. He gave me the latest volume he had published, and I took it to my London lodgings and tried hard to read even the first page. It was of no use. I might as we'll have tried to wade across the Atlan- tic. It was too deep for me. Next time l met him I said:
 "Protessor, l read that interesting volume of yours last night. Couldn't put it down till had finished it."
 The professor frightened up. 'I am glad you liked it," he said.
 "Still l have one fault to find with it. It is too simple. You should re- member that you arc not writing for children, but for grown-up men. Why don't you write something learned and deep?"
 The professor sighed.
 "Your criticism is just" he ad- mitted, "but you see am only on the threshold of knowledge. I often think it is presumption in me to write at all, and l would not have issued the book gave you were it not for the urging of the publishers and some of my friends. Of course you noticed the error ill that calculation on page 103?"
 "Certainly. I suppose you claim that was mistake of the printer?"
 "Oh, not at all The mistake was mine, and the more inexcusable, as corrected the proofs. If the investiga- tions in which l am at present engaged are successful, hope to produce & book that will meet the approval of all my friends. Did you notice any other errors in the book?"
 "My dear professor, haven't you known me long enough to be aware that l can't read a page of that book or understand line of it? I didn't know anything of the error on page 3O1 or"
 "Page 103," corrected the professor.
 "Well, page 1OS, then. It would take me years to get up to the preface of that book-in fact, doubt if ever would reach there."
 "Then your criticisms" began the the professor, reproachfnlly.
 "Were pure bosh," admitted.
 The professor looked at me over his glasses, as was habit of his, and said nothing. He thought such trifling with so serious subject as science was utterly beneath the dignity of any sane man, and indeed it was.
 Although the professor is one of the most genial men ever knew, he is completely devoid of any sense of humor.
 One evening at the professors rooms a mutual friend told very funny story. It was so evident that the professor did not see anything funny about it, that proposed we should try and explain it to him. The mu- tual friend analysed it; took it apart, bit by bit, and explained where the point of the yarn was. and to assist
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25

When the blood is loaded with i'm. purities, the whole system becomes disordered. This condition of things cannot last long without serious re- suits. In such cases, a powerful alter ative is needed, such as Ayers Sarsa- parilla. It never fails, and has no equal
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25

A man has just died at Browntown, N. J., at the age of 1o5. For more than eighty years he had never missed taking whisky toddy before going to bed. Had he not thus mixed re- bellious liquors with his blood he would not have been cut off in the flower ofhis youth.- Times Democrat.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25
THE BABY'S PRAYER.
BY MRS. F. F.. WILLIAMSON.

Twas evening, and the baby Knelt down beside my knee, To say in lisping accents Her prayers after me. Her dimpled hands were folded; Her golden head was bent; With grace and sweet devotion Her attitude was blent. She repeated, "Our Papa" Which in the heavens art, While every word she uttered Found echo in my heart. Then came, "And now lay me Down in my bed to seep; l pay the Lord, dear mamma, My title soul to teep; And bod boss ou and papa, Ganpa and gamma, too, Aunties and title cuddens, And all my fenz'-not few. And then her sweet petitions Rose earnestly and clear, As she prayed for "Unker Eddie And all poor solZers dear" Before amen was uttered
 The baby raised her head, With thought born sure of heaven, "And the mebels, too?" she said. "Yes darllng." (For the rebels, thought, could not despise Her innocent, sweet petitions Ascending to the skies.) Again, with eyes uplifted- Those eyes of heavely blue She lisped with reverent accent, ''Lord, bess the mebels, too" - And so through all the horror Of that fratricidal war, Whose cruel tide was rolling Der the southern lands afar, Baby ne'er forgot her "mebels," Though prompted not by me, At morn or eve; when bending In prayer beside my knee. Ah 'tis from lips like baby's- That little sinless child God perfects praise forever, True, sweet and undecided. How often had wondered
 What the "mebels" would have said, Had they known, in Massachusetts A babe with golden head Was over and over lisping
 X prayer in Jesus name, That the north and south together His blessing soon might claim. The mothers, 1 knew, would love her My baby, free from sin For touch of baby nature
 Will make all mothers kin. So when the war was over,
 And Peace again had smiled, Itold two southern warriors Of the prayers of the child Who had grown a little taller, But not one bit less sweet, Than when she craved blessing For the "mebels" at my feet They sad, as they kissed the darling Again and yet again, with lifted face and streaming eyes, God bless the child, Ameni"
 -Erchang
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25

A little ''fresh-air child" at Elk land, who had never seen a COW be- fore, was watching the milking pro- cess with eyes full of astonishment. After looking on in silence for some time she drew near, and, placing her hand on the cows distended side, ex- claimed: "Why, she's chock full of it, ain't Erchanqe.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25
Personal Comeliness

is greatly enhanced by a fine set of teeth. On the other hand, nothing so detracts from the effect of pleasing features, fine eyes and graceful figure, as yellow teeth. That popular toilet article SOZODONT cheeks their de- cay, and renders them as white as snow.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25

To all who seek that glorious boon
 A fragrant and 6 wholesome breath; To all who seek to shield their teeth From swift decay and early death,
 Take this advice from us as friends, Use SOZODONT and gain your ends.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25
WHAT KILLS AMERICANS.
Fast Living Reckless Eating Hard Drinking Poor Sleeping Social JealOusy-Polit- ieal Amhition-Violen Passions
 The Race for Money.

AAO "AesA AAAh uASOAcO OA buAS COun~ try is nervous debility and prostra- ton. It goes under many names but it is essentially the same com plaint. Hospitals and private in- stitutions for nervous patients are crowded. The average of life in the United States is decreasing every year. Sudden deaths from nervous collapse among our busi- ness, professional and public men are so frequent as scarcely to excite remark. The majority of suicides, committed without apparent reason, or under so-called depression of spirits" are really prompted by nervous prostration, which is & fruitful source of insanity and crime with all their grief and horror.
 These facts are startling. They threaten the very life of the nation. They assail the springs of it's power and prosperity. They wreck man. hoods strength and woman's use fitness and beauty.
 Every one should know the causes. What are theya The answer is easy and terribly plain: Our vio- iouspersonal habits; our careless and lawless eating and drinking; the intense mental and physical strain arising from our mad race after money, position and influence; the fears and struggles of poverty; the use of narcotics and stimulants; our fashion of turning day into night and night into day; and, briefly, our desperate willingness to pay any price for an hours pleasure or success. So we burn life's candle at both ends and fill the lunatic asylums and the graveyards.
 The disease from which we suffer and die is, in plain English, Nervous Dyspepsia, as it is seated in the Nerves and in the organs of Diges- tion, Assimilation and Nutrition. Healthy digestion being impeded or destroyed, the whole body. nerves included, is literally starved; even when there is no emaciation to tell the sad story.
 Nervous prostration sends out it's warnings:-headache in the morn- ing; persistent dull heaviness or aching at the base of the brain; wake fitness; loss of appetite and disgust with food; loss of mental energy and interest in ordinary duties and business; restlessness and anxiety without any assignable reason; eruc- tations; bad breath; foul mucous on the teeth; occasional giddiness; pal pitation of the heart; sallowness of the skin; coated tongue and gradual failure of strength and ambition.
 The remedy is a total abandon ment of the habits and customs which cause the disease in each in- dividual case, and the use of Shaker Extract of Roots (Seigel's Syrup to cure the mischief already done. This great remedy, prepared by the Shaker Community of Mt. Lebanon, N. Y., is especially adapted to erad- icate Nervous Dyspepsia. To do this it acts directly and gently but powerfully upon .he disordered stomach. liver and kidneys, restor- ing their tone and vigor. promoting the secretion of bile. expelling waste matters from the system. and puri- lying the blood.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-21
A Story Told FL, ". Beecher.

The other day lin 1877 1 came through
Loudonville, O., and l was forcibly remind.
ed of my stay there when on my first trip
out west. We stopped late at night and spent
Sunday there. There were two coach loads
of us, and tho little two story brick tavern
was nearly full when we arrived. The best
they could do for my brother Charles and
myself was to give us couple of shake.
downs in the dining room. We slept late
Sunday morning, but finally waking up com.
menced to talk. l said: "Charles, I'll bet you
1 can tell what they had at this hotel for din,
ner yesterday" What was it!' he asked.
"Roast beef, I replied, basing my judgment
on stale sort of odor that pervaded the
room. NO, you're mistaken" said he, shak,
ing his head and shifting at the covering OF
his bed; lit was mutton" We both stoutly
maintained cur respective propositions, and,
falling to a vigorous smelling of our bed
clothes, found the landlord had given us a
couple table cloths for bedspreads, and
Charlie ad got the mutton cloth and the
beef CIV ! ork Tribune.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-21

The Duke of Connaught gets $50 600
year as commander in chief at Bombay,
and has parliamentary allowance be-
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-21
Spain's SayOry Stew.

IL you have a good dish of cocido (pro-
nounced cothido, because of the Spanish lisp
given to the before certain vowels) you have
good deal for your dinner. 1t is q sayory
stew of chicken, potatoes, sausage, bacon and
white beans, all boiled up with pieces of
beef. In most Spanish families this is the
every day dish. Of course, the poorer fami-
lies have to leave out some of the ingredients.
except on festive occasions In Andalusia
the peasants will sit round huge painful of
their version of this article. 1t is made &C
cordng to their means, and often vegetables
are plentiful, but the pieces of meat few and
far between, and each man ladies it out by
spoonfuls into his mouth. Plates are dis.
pensed with.
The foreigner who is suddenly confronted
with huge dish of cocido and politely re-
quested to help himself is in some difficulty.
He takes a spoonful at hazard The waiter
still stands at his elbow. ''The senior has
only taken beans" Again YOU make a dash
and secure something else. The waiter stares,
but does not move away 1.-THE senior has
only taken sausage" The senior, confused.
requests the waiter to assist him; and then
the process, though slow, is interesting. A
spoonful of beans on the plate; then, selected
WIN the greatest care, a piece OF chicken;
then patient search for slice Of sausage
buried under mound Of cabbage; then ths
cabbage itself; then a minute devoted to a
voyage of discovery in search of the incest
piece of beef; then an exploration in search
Of succulent morsel of bacon; then spoon
full of the potatoes; and then, over all, an
extra spoonful OF the beautiful gravy. /
timeo my waiter, and he took six minutes
an~ q half to help me to cocido. When the
dish passes down a table d'hote it takes
about an hour to go round. 1t is for this
reason that the Spaniards help themselves
ali together at the same time from the COM
mon dish.-Home Journal
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-21
The President on Horseback.

The president, it is said, has yielded to the
advice of his friends and VIII take to horse
manShip as a means of exercise. Secretaries
Bayard. Lamar, Whitney, and Fairchild have
described to him the benefit they derive from
equestrianiSm. and he has consented to Join
them in some of their gallops across the coun-
try. Secretary Bayard rides big bay horse
with banged tail, and every fair afternoon
he joins Secretary Fairchild or George Ban
croft, the venerable historian, in canter
through the soldiers home and the adjacent
roads. Secretary Whitney usually rides with
party of young people, and none Of them
enjoys squirt moro than he does Secretary
Lamar directs his horse to be saddled and at
his Office every clear afternoon at so o'clock,
from whence he explores the surrounding
country until it is time to return home for
dinner.
Mrs. Cleveland is said TO be delighted with
the idea of her husband taking to horseback
riding, and she promises TO join him in the
sport. she has attended both Of the recent
"paper chaSes,n and is ambitious to Join some
Of the gay riding parties which are constantly
being made up in society. a well known
New York instructor in Craftsmanship, who
is now in this city, has formed a large class
in fashionable circles, which has given quite
a boom TO horseback riding. The seal browns
are not well adapted for saddle horses, and
early additions TO the White House stables
may be looked for.-Baiamore Sun .
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-21
THE WEIGHT OF A SIGNATURE.

| 4 Wonderful Pair of Scales That Weighs
the Hairs a Mans Head.
In a Broadway store which is a branch of a
big out of town scale factory, are more differ
ent kind of scales than most people imagine
were ever made There are specimens Of
every grade of weighing machine, from the
big track scales that can weigh a railroad car
full of pig lead down to tiny balance SO fine
that it is kept in glass case which could be
carried in ones pocket. The smallest scales
of all are made for delicate tests in assaying.
They are adjusted to milligrammes and are
SO sensitive and SO fine that an eyelash can be
correctly weighed on them. You can write
your name on a slip of paper with lead
pencil, and then find out just how much your
signature weighs. The weights are the mere
atoms of aluminium, not half so large as the
head of pin. The machine is SO delicate that
q little dust blowing in from the street might
affect its workings, and it has to be carefully
cleaned after each exposure 1t is made of
aluminium platinum and the finest tempered
steel, and people do not use it as a plaything
as general rule. 1t costs as much as its
weight in gold.
Every once in while a skeptic comes
along who doesn't believe it will weigh q hair
from mans head. and if the manager of the
store has plenty of time at his disposal he will
bring out the wonderful little machine and
operate it. A reporter happened in the other
day while the operation was going on. The
manager took slip OF ordinary writing
paper and weighed it. 1t weighed thirty
eight milligrammes He then gave it to the
visitor, with lead pencil, and the visitor
wrote "John Henry Larned" on it in full,
free hand. Then the manager put the slip
back on the scale and fixed the little weights.
When he struck a balance again he had forty
three milligramnles on the other side. The
signature weighed precisely five rini-
grammes.
Then the man pulled hair out of his I'D.
and the manager found it weighed three nil
hgrammes. An eyelash weighed little less
than one milligramme, and hair from his
whiskers weighed five milligrammes.
The manager showed how easy it was to
count the hair on mans head At the rate
of three milligrammes to hair there would
be 5000 hairs in an ounce. The man proba-
bly, had three ounces of hair OH his head and
therefore "a 900 hairs.-New York Mail ard
Express
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-21
FOR SALE.

Improved and Unimproved City Property
on the best improved streets in the city.
Lots on the inside on street car lines and In
outside additions Suburban lots on the east
side in Maple Grove addition.
Business lots and business blocks for sale
at special bargains. Several fne tracts near
the city for sub-dividing and plating.
Improved farms and grass lands in all
parts of the county; also ranches in this and
adjoining counties.
All parties wishing to buy would do well
to call and examine my list before buying
elsewhere
w. A. THOMAS,
The Oldest Real Estate Agency in Wichita.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-21
Eli NXe, the HuinOrist

Bill Nye, the western humorist, was in the
city the other day. He is a tall, lank, smooth
faced, bald headed sinner who wears glasses
and is as mild and pleasant as shepherd dog.
He began his career as writer in Wyoming,
where he was first heard OF as the editor, pro-
9rietor and manager Of a paper called The
Boomerang. He had first tried his hand al
mining, and in the course of his experience
became possessed of a mule which he called
Boomerang When he dropped into journal
ism he honored his faithful, long cared part
ner by comforting his name on the paper. Al
least that's what Bill says By the way, his
name is not Bill, but Edgar W. Nye, and he
is one of the most domestic men III the coun-
try. He is particularly fond of his babies,
and, like all humorists, is as full of pathos as
woman. But he can tell dialect story as
well as any man on this revolving footstool-
New York World